NLRB's New GC Puts Out List Of Policies To Be Reviewed

Law360, New York (December 4, 2017, 9:18 PM EST) -- The National Labor Relations Board’s new top attorney took a step toward undoing many of the board’s more controversial recent decisions Friday, asking the agency’s regional offices to send him cases involving certain priority issues such as handbook rules and the scope of federal protections for workers’ concerted activities.

Memoranda listing so-called Mandatory Submissions to Advice allow general counsel to tee labor issues up for board consideration — and reconsideration — by skipping the process of adjudication in the board’s 26 regions. New general counsel Peter...